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Language and labor market success
Isphording, Ingo Eduard - 2014
This article summarizes three different strands of the literature that address the labor market effects of language … ongoing globalization leads to an increased demand for foreign language proficiency to reduce search and information costs and … migrants, destination language skills display both a prerequisite for and outcome of successful integration. Investments into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418954
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Language proficiency and immigrants' economic integration : It is vital to measure language proficiency well, as it crucially determines immigrants’ earnings
Daley, Angela; Hu, Min; Warman, Casey - 2019
, India, China), which has coincided with poor economic integration. Language proficiency is an important determinant of … language proficiency is crucial for good integration policy, as is understanding the relationship between these measures and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012139489
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English language proficiency and earnings in a developing country : the case of South Africa
Casale, Daniela; Posel, Dorrit - In: The journal of socio-economics 40 (2011) 4, pp. 385-393
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Estimating the impact of language of instruction in South African primary schools : a fixed effects approach
Taylor, Stephen; Von Fintel, Marisa - In: Economics of education review 50 (2016), pp. 75-89
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The economic returns to a second official language : English in Quebec and French in the Rest-of-Canada
Christofidēs, Loizos N. (contributor);  … - 2008
. -- Wages ; language knowledge ; language use …-of-Canada (ROC) generates a demand for bilingualism and investment in the acquisition of a second official language. Knowledge of an … additional language may be associated with enhanced earnings because it may reflect what might generically be called 'ability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003729409
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The impact of surplus skills on earnings : extending the over-education model to language proficiency
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - In: Economics of education review 36 (2013), pp. 262-275
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The returns to occupational foreign language use : evidence from Germany
Heidland, Tobias - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 32 (2015), pp. 86-98
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Economic returns to speaking the right language(s)? : evidence from Kazakhstan's shift in state language and language of instruction
Aldashev, Alisher; Danzer, Alexander M. - 2014
This paper investigates the economic returns to language skills and bilingualism. The analysis is staged in Kazakhstan …, a multi-ethnic country with complex ethnic settlement patterns that has switched its official state language from … bilingualism on earnings while Russian was the official state language in the 1990s. Surprisingly, the Kazakh language continues to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434518
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Economic returns to speaking the right language(s)? : evidence from Kazakhstan's shift in state language and language of instruction
Aldashev, Alisher; Danzer, Alexander M. - 2014
This paper investigates the economic returns to language skills and bilingualism. The analysis is staged in Kazakhstan …, a multi-ethnic country with complex ethnic settlement patterns that has switched its official state language from … bilingualism on earnings while Russian was the official state language in the 1990s. Surprisingly, the Kazakh language continues to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010438031
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Economic returns to speaking the right language(s)? : evidence from Kazakhstan's shift in state language and language of instruction
Aldashev, Alisher; Danzer, Alexander M. - 2014 - Version - November 2014
This paper investigates the economic returns to language skills and bilingualism. The analysis is staged in Kazakhstan …, a multi-ethnic country with complex ethnic settlement patterns that has switched its official state language from … bilingualism on earnings while Russian was the official state language in the 1990s. Surprisingly, the Kazakh language continues to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010438314